★ Milestone1970s
Pop Warner
A south-side Allentown kid in a yellow Pop Warner jersey — #33, center of the team photo. The start of everything.
Pro Football Hall of Fame · Class of 2014 · Now using the same attributes to teach kids to read
Hall of Fame · Class of 2014
Andre Reed.
HOF 2014#83951 Rec13,198 Yds7× Pro Bowl2× All-Pro4× Super BowlAllentown Born
Bills all-time leader · 941 rec · 13,095 yds · 86 TDs · 221 games
Allentown-born wide receiver. Drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1985, fourth round (86th overall) out of Kutztown. Sixteen NFL seasons. Seven consecutive Pro Bowls (1988–1994). Four straight Super Bowls. Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 2014. And in 2010, while still active in football, he founded the Andre Reed Foundation to give Allentown kids the books and mentors a Boys & Girls Club had once given him.
✦ The Career · The Calling
Andre's Journey.
From Allentown to Canton — and back to the kids who needed him.
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Allentown roots
Before Buffalo, there was a club.
Andre grew up on the south side of Allentown, the youngest of five. Dieruff High School. Boys & Girls Club after the bell. Mentors who showed up and stayed. That’s where the literacy gap, the homework table, and the trust got built — long before any NFL contract.
He walked on at Kutztown — Division II — and outworked the room. The Bills called in ’85. Sixteen seasons later, he came home to do for Allentown kids what that B&G Club had done for him.
Dieruff HighBoys & Girls ClubKutztown D-IILehigh Valley
The career, in photos
Sixteen seasons in red, white & blue.
Route running, run-after-catch, four Super Bowls, the tunnel, the locker room, and the draft-day return — #83 on the Bills, frame by frame.
The career was the proof. The Foundation is the work.
Every dollar lands inside a Boys & Girls Club. Every book has a kid’s name on it. That’s the play.